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openEdit war
On this page, deerhornsaresopretty added an entry for The Wiki Rule. After it was removed by a different troper for being a definition-only page (meaning that it's not allowed to have trope entries about it), deerhornsaresopretty added it back.
Edited by UFOYeahopenEdit War?
So, I am unsure on this but YMMV.Dead Boy Detectives 2024:
- Shanwooo 444 added anUnintentionally Unsympathetic entry mentioning "despite him never being anything other than kind and patient with her".
- I removed that sentence in my attempt to make the entry more neutral and fix some grammar mistakes.
- Shanwooo 444 re-added that phrase almost word for word.
I mean like I said I am unsure if this is an edit war. They didn't discuss this anywhere and this is not the first time they have done this, but I was thinking on re-adding that part anyways as it reads weird without it. However, even then I am unsure if it counts but that is for a different discussion. Is this an edit war?
Edited by BullmanopenMass violation of Administrivia policy on Peter and Company. Webcomic
The author of Peter and Company, who goes by the username PeterAndCompany, I'm pretty sure just violated The Fic May Be Yours, but the Trope Page Is Ours and Auto-Erotic Troping.
I quote the following from the former:
- You may contest factual information and either make the changes or ask others to change it for you, as long as you are polite and respect consensus.
- You may inform us that your work has been removed and made permanently inaccessible to the public, in which case we may consider deleting our article(s). This requires agreement from the troper body.
- You may request removal of content that you believe is hostile or defamatory towards yourself or your work, but we hold final discretion as to what falls into those categories.
Nowhere have I seen the author do this at all; as far as I can tell, they also did not go to any of the cleanup pages. They instead gave a lengthy edit reason stating that they are the author in an attempt to justify their vandalism of the page, which as Edit War states, is not sufficient discussion; Essentially he is trying to claim ownership of the page.
He has also gone on the trivia page and the YMMV page to do the exact same thing, moreso with the latter especially on parts that have to do with the main webcomic itself, and has also engaged in Auto-Erotic Troping on this paticular edit and possibly the Main page. Admin has not indicated to me that he had the permission needed to take down what I wrote or the right to make the edits he made (the latter of which had nothing to do with removing misinformation on the Trivia page) either, so I'm on high alert with this.
He has also done the following which is something authors are not supposed to do, especially in regard to YMMV. I quote the following:
- You may not remove content from our articles on the basis that you disagree with it or do not like it.
I am open to input from the community and admin on this matter as to what can, should, or if anything can be done.
Edited by Stardust5099openSuspect edits regarding trans stuff
So troper Chef Cranky Rogan has made some edits regarding trans people that are potentially concerning.
- In here and here, they make a mention of Shiki Aoki being a non-op trans man.
- In here here, they listed Brandon Winckler (a non-binary actor) as an aversion to Cross-Dressing Voices simply because he uses he/they pronouns.
- In here, they commented out a Cross-Dressing Voices entry regarding another non-binary VA (Giselle Fernandez) with this edit reason:
I brought this troper up before here, so the fact that they making edits like this despite being called off by people on the thread is really concerning to me.
Edited by Ayumi-chanopenCan Complete Monsters/Magnificent Bastards, etc go in Just For Fun?
I recently created a JFF page for a fictional show meant to be like Tales From the Crypt known as Symphony in Black, meant to be adapted from some of EC Comics. I noticed an MB entry of EC Comics' YMMV page, and said character would appear in Symphony In-Universe. Would I be able to do something like that on the page, or do those only apply to real works?
openVandal messing with kids' shows again Western Animation
TearJerker.Peppa Pig was just made by Jakob10 that consists of "*Mummy Rabbit sprained her ankle. *Mummy Sheep has a cough."
openPossible edit war
On YMMV.Touken Ranbu Warriors (and it's previous name Touken Ranbu Musuo):
- Troper biggestSoap added an Esoteric Happy Ending entry on its previous name before I moved it.
- I removed it, citing this comment on the "Is this an Example" thread".
- Soap added it again (albeit rewritten) on the new named page.
I'm not sure if edit warring counts when a page is moved from its original language title to one that is officially localized so I wish to know.
Edited by Ayumi-chanopenIs this walkthrough mode
I found this on Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes and I'm unsure if it is walkthrough mode.
- Easy Level Trick: The easiest way to recruit Hogan, who requires you to earn 50,000 Baqua of profit solely by buying/selling items at the Trade Depot, is buying as much trading items as possible before talking to him to initiate his side quest. That way, players can just run towards the nearby trading post and sell everything that can be traded to easily get him.
openTeam-Up Series question
I’m having an issue regarding Team-Up Series. Apparently the trope is only used when one character teams up with another character each issue/episode, not the same person throughout the series.
My question is even if it’s the same person would being a team up still count? For example Superman/Batman. The series is a literal team-up between Superman and Batman, but doesn’t fit the team-up series trope. Is a second trope for when the main draw of a series is that two characters are teaming up?
openTropes on Hand Jumper Webcomic
I'm very new to TV Tropes wiki-making and wanted to make a page on the webcomic "Hand Jumper" but saw that the page was previously deleted. I'd like to start it up again but first may I get some permission so I don't do anything wrong?
Edited by wingedcatgirlopenEdit warring
On Super Mario Galaxy, SeaMonkey851 has changed the game's genre from Platform Game to Action-Adventure. This is the second time they do this, after I had reverted it since all official sources describe the game as a 3D Platformer instead of action-adventure. They also extended this wonk to the Action-Adventure index, as seen here (where they also listed other 3D Mario games which, again, are officially described as Platformers).
I'm writing this query to ask for permission to revert the edit once again, and ideally to also remove the games from the AA index.
openWeird Edit Removal Reason Western Animation
On YMMV.Dexters Laboratory Walt K removed this entry
- Self-Fanservice:
- Dexter and Mandark get a lot of this in fanart.
- Dee Dee gets her fair share of this, especially when most artists think she'll take after her mom. It doesn't help that Dexter once described Dee Dee as "her hips a bit meaty".
they removed it with the edit reason "inappropriate" (presumably meaning "sexualizing characters from a children’s series is inappropriate")
Whether you agree with them or not, YMMV is just troping Audience Reactions, and we’ve had other Self-Fanservice entries from kids shows. Even if it is "inappropriate" we’re just troping what fans believe. Is this ok, or should I add it back?
openAvoiding an EditWar
Troper bloodraven117 deleted several entries on the Mythos Effect page on the basis that they are "Non-canon omakes". However, all of them are listed as canon side stories on Space Battles. I can't re-add since I'm the original poster, and when I reached out to bloodraven, all I got in over three weeks was "They aren't on the FanFiction.Net version, and tropers who come from FFN will be rightly confused about where they are in the story".
To me, this seems... not our problem I guess is how I'd put it. We have a link to the version of the story that includes those entries so their should be no problem in including them on the tvtropes page, right?
resolved Spammer?
This troper's only contributions to the wiki are creating a characters subpage for a trope, written entirely in Arabic. Possible spammer?
BTW, the page has been cutlisted, but I still wanted to bring it up, since it's weird that creating such a page is the troper's only contribution to the wiki. Also, the text contains links to other websites that I haven't heard before, and I don't think clicking them is a good idea.
Edited by UFOYeahopenVIdeo uploading has become fast
I am impressed with the upload speed of videos now. Did we switch to a new server?
resolved Peter and Company: No image discussion before replacement Webcomic
So...The author of Peter and Company, who goes by the username PeterAndCompany, just picked a new image to replace the current one without going to Image Pickin' first for any sort of discussion. I've already sent them a notifier with nothing else written on the matter.
Three questions for the community (forgot to edit this bit when I added a third, oops):
1. Does this fall under a violation of Auto-Erotic Troping?
2. Is there a cleanup thread for that sort of thing?
3. Am I allowed to remove it?
Edited by Stardust5099openAdding "the one where" lines to Star Trek: TNG recaps. Live Action TV
I've always enjoyed the "the one where/with" lines at the beginning of pages for Rocky, James Bond and Star Trek films, as well as Doctor Who episode recaps. I'd like to add some examples to TNG recaps, can I just dive right in and do it? Or do I need to get clearance from mods, or request permission in a Trope Workshop first?
Thanks.
Edited by 773202lunaopenIs there any parameter for text under headers to be put in folders?
This is a question that popped on my mind when I was doing some structuring on the The Amazing Digital Circus pages. Specifically, when I put the "General" section of the newly-created Alternative Character Interpretation in a folder (to go in tandem with the folders in the "Episodes" section) among some cleanup, I went to check if any other pages had some sections with folders and others without them, I found the Heartwarming page, which had its "Misc." section without a folder; I attempted to put it in a folder, only to notice upon looking in the page's history that Shanwoo 444 (the same troper who created the Alternative Character Interpretation) had already done that before only to quickly remove it as they were creating folders for each episode under the "Episodes" header, at which I quickly reverted the changes (initially because I mis-read the entries for a moment and thought I added the "Misc." folder myself, meaning that I could have started an edit war, but I sticked to what I did anyway after seeing I didn't just in case).
What I'm asking is, in pages pertaining to examples of a trope in a specific work that use folders and headers at the same time, should folders only be used as further subsections for headers that have distinctive aspects separating the examples (e.g. the episode it takes place in), or is a single folder acceptable for any header regardless of how the distinction between its examples or even its length (as the Misc. section in the Heartwarming page is rather short with only two examples)? Shanwoo 444 and I seem to have rather different ways of organizing pages like these, given how I prefer to put everything in folders to keep things neat whereas they are fine with leaving headings without folders unless they address things such as episodes. I'm not really sure if there's any rule or recommendation addressed in the Administrivia pages on how to handle folders in this situation, and I'm asking this just to be safe on what to do.
resolved Edit Warring
- BeescyTVT added a Recycled In Space joke line to Ireland
- LordGro deletes it with the edit reason "This is not true, not funny, and it manages to get the definition of Recycled In Space wrong."
- BeescyTVT re-adds it with the edit reason "Rack off, snowflakes, I may be of mostly Scottish descent, but I also have a wee bit of Irish too, and so I have more-than-enough N-Word Privileges for making the "not true" and "not funny" joke."
I agree with Lord Gro that it is a misuse of recycled in space, though I think that they are a bit too blunt with their edit reason. I also think that Beescy's edit reason is needlessly aggressive in response, and of course edit warring is against the rules.
Hello Tropers! I wanted to ask about the recommendations for Fanfics written in non-English speaking languages. Are they put in a specific place? Or are they simply not posted here? The doubt comes from the page's policy of not allowing posts in other languages.